BEFORE she did die, I'd heard rumours British television would be cut off for an entire week for endlessly repetitous bluster and guff about her life. Thankfully in actuality things were done in a dignified and stately way.
I remember waking up, the TV having blared out all night as I slept (as often happens). As the Queen Mum's funeral played out on BBC 1, her daughter, the Queen's tribute played over and over, that we should remember her in happiness...
I woke up tearful, not for the death of a public figure, but because I heard one woman's private grief in a public message, and just then I felt really sorry for the Queen....
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